al_jamal wrote@rolf, theres a new version out now since this month, joomla 2,5. maybe it is better?
Maybe, but I think the core is the same. I had a couple of bad experiences with Joomla, the last one a couple of years ago.
Joomla is huge and I could not understand how it is organized. Some people use hacks, stick plugins together and modify them a little to suit what they want... but it seems that to have a site with clean code, you will have to built your own plugin (I don't like hacks) and the documentation is not that great... I concluded that you're better off writing your own code from scratch.
From what i saw Joomla goes against my beliefs and my way of doing thigns when it comes to software development.